Wednesday, July 4, 2007

heading south for some summer

So yesterday I went to the Dyssekilde ecovillage and had a nice tour with my contact there, Jacob. Last night I wandered around Copenhagen more and enjoyed some ice cream by the evening light on the canal. I won´t be missing the hostel here as I move on to new accomodations this afternoon. My plans have been mutating on the hour the last couple days. My latest plan is to head to Kolding today and spend a day or so there to see if I can track down the illusive bioworks pyramid which would be a great case study for my research - a glass pyramid greenhouse which has layers of plants and fish inside to treat wastewater from an apartment block. I haven´t been able to find a email contact about it yet so we´ll see. After that, I may be skipping another place I planned to visit in the north because the trains here are rediculously expensive. It sounds like it might cost me around 200 dollars on the train to get there round trip which is really not in my budget. In the mean time, I´ve been emailing with some old euro friends from my Australia exchange days. John is in Bologna, Italy in grad school there and I´m thinking of hightailing it out of the expensive north and back to some mediterranean climate zones. The plan now seems to be to take the train back through Germany this weekend with a stop over in Munich. Then about a week in Italy based in Bologna with Pisa, Venice, and other beach towns short distances away. Then I will take a cheap flight from Italy to London and meet up with a couple other Aussie-time buddies to tour the UK. So much for Amsterdam but I think the new itenerary should be worth it. Stay tuned to see if this schedule completely changes soon. Happy fireworking.

Nicole

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